Clinical Reasoning From

After working through this lesson you should be able to: - Choose the type of assessment (comprehensive, focused, episodic, or primary survey) that fits the patient's acuity and the time available, and state what each type will and will not tell you. - Perform and describe inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation, and say what a normal and an abnormal result means physiologically. - Collect a subjective history with OLDCARTS and PQRST so that symptoms become analyzable data rather than a list of complaints. - Cluster cues into patterns, name two or three competing explanations, and decide which is the most dangerous one to rule out first. - Separate expected from unexpected findings by using the patient's own baseline, the clinical context and the trend, not a single value. - Score and interpret an early warning score (worked through with NEWS2), apply the qSOFA bedside screen, and match the score to the correct response and recipient. - Communicate a deteriorating patient with SBAR or ISBAR and document the findings factually, with times, in a form another clinician can act on. -...